After Ally Saccone dominated the girls hurdles for four years, along comes her brother, Kevin, to take over as king of the South Coast Conference hurdlers.

Kevin Saccone, a junior, won both hurdles and the triple jump on his way to being named the Outstanding Male Athlete of the SCC Track and Field Championships Friday at Seekonk High. His triple win enabled the Old Rochester boys to grab second place in the meet, which was won by Dighton-Rehoboth.

"Kevin had a lot to live up to and had to live in the shadow (of his sister) for awhile, but he didn't want to stay in the shadows," ORR coach Bill Tilden said. "People have been turning heads at him in the hurdles since he was a freshman."

After graduating last June, Ally Saccone took her running talents to Boston University.

Kevin Saccone won the 400 hurdles in 58.28, captured the 110 hurdles in 15.37 and won the triple jump with a leap of 41-feet, 5.25-inches. He came into the day with the 15th fastest 400 hurdles — an all-out sprint for a quarter-mile with 11 jumps along the way — time (57.0) in the state this season.

"I like this race," he said. "It's tough, but it's one of my favorite events. I love hurdling and the 400 so I found this to be a fun event."

The transition to the hurdles had nothing to do with his sister's success.

"Before I knew about Ally being a great hurdler, I was doing the hurdles in junior high," said Saccone, who was lpanning on playing basketball his freshman year, but switched to indoor track at the last minute. "She tried to convince me to do the hurdles once I got to the high school."

One of the most impressive runs of the day was the opening race, where Old Rochester's Mike Wyman won the 2-mile in 9:11.56, the fastest time in the state this season by 10 seconds, according to Tilden..

"We wanted a 4:40 first mile and see where that took him," Tilden said. "He ran 4:37. I know Mike wanted to get under 9:00, but the warm-up was cut short by 10 minutes, and he had more lap traffic than expected when they ran the boys and girls 2-mile together to make sure the day finished before the threat of rain."

Running the 2-mile for the first time this spring, Wyman has an interesting choice ahead of him he decides which race to run in the Div. 4 Meet next Saturday at Durfee. He has run a 4:13 mile and a 1:54 800 this year.

"Today was supposed to be a workout with a 4:40 mile and then run each lap faster than the previous one," Wyman said. "Today was a good time, but I'm shooting for the low 8:50s at the Nationals. This has been a great season."

Wareham's Mason Vasconcellos was overtaken on the third lap, but came back to take the lead and charged down the final stretch to win the mile in 4:35.93. He was trying to break the 35-year-old school record of 4:34, held by his basketball coach, Kevin Brogioli.

Point-wise, Colin Knapton helped keep ORR close in the team results, winning the 100 (11.17) and javelin (170-1) and finishing third in the high jump.

Jack Smith of Old Rochester, a senior who transferred from Old Colony, won the 200 (23.2) and the long jump (19-8.25).

The GNB Voc-Tech 4x100 relay team of Brady Martin, Jarred Britto, Sean Aldrich and Michael Stemper broke the school record with its 44.69.